{"id":186420,"date":"2013-03-15T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"b87f3f36d7ff3c465339aeee6aab6a4d"},"modified":"2013-03-15T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:52:00","slug":"smartphone-app-turns-home-drone-into-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=186420","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone app turns home drone into spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/03\/playing_astrodrone\/12573027-1-eng-GB\/Playing_AstroDrone_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA free ESA app released today turns a popular iPhone-controlled \u2018home drone\u2019 into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real \u2013 in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/03\/playing_astrodrone\/12573027-1-eng-GB\/Playing_AstroDrone_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA free ESA app released today turns a popular iPhone-controlled \u2018home drone\u2019 into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real \u2013 in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192089,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186420\/revisions\/192089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}